{"product_id":"manchester-s-industrial-heritage","title":"Manchester’s Industrial Heritage","description":"Manchester was the world’s first industrial city, the shock city of the Victorian age. Its nineteenth-century dominance of world cotton production, as Cottonopolis, saw its city region emerge as one of the largest urban areas in Europe. The city continues to re-invent itself in the post-industrial era, but there is a rich industrial heritage legacy that is still visible, from the Northern Quarter to Ardwick. There are dozens of eighteenth-century weavers’ cottages hiding in plain sight, whilst many of the textile mills of Ancoats and Chorlton-on-Medlock, often converted into apartments, still stand as markers of the city’s role as a textile-manufacturing colossus. Elsewhere in the city, you can find buildings associated with brewing, glass-making, electricity generation, warehousing, and water supply, often in the shadow of the of the twenty-first-century city’s renaissance. Its internationally important canal and railway buildings and structures, saved during the 1970s and 1980s, now provide offices, homes, and leisure facilities for the growing city-centre population. In this wide-ranging book Michael Nevell provides an overview of the surprising and often breathtaking survival of Manchester’s industrial face, helping to tell the physical story of the world’s first industrial city.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503737479541,"sku":"9781398124196","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398124196.jpg?v=1786867447","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/manchester-s-industrial-heritage","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}